Dynamite Entertainment presents an unprecedented comic book series that tells the complete story of the Lord of the Undead – Dracula! For the first time in 112 years, the tale that Bram Stoker intended to tell is told (including “Dracula’s Guest”).

Writers Leah Moore and John Reppion are joined by painter Colton Worley for a fully painted series, reprinted here in this softcover collected edition. All of the stunning covers by John Cassaday are included, along with script pages, annotations by Leah Moore and John Reppion and samplings of the original text by Bram Stoker!

Order paperback now from Amazon.co.uk

Order paperback now from Amazon.com

And here’s a 16 page preview for you:

If you’re a fan of old Mr. Stoker’s work  and still hungry for more then you could certainly do worse than check out The Swan River Press’ Bram Stoker Series of pamphlets

Just like the hardcover, the book is crammed with extras including an afterword by world renowned Holmes and Dracula scholar Leslie S. Klinger, an original Conan Doyle Holmes tale – The Devil’s Foot – illustrated by Campbell and lots more.

You can read a nine page preview of the story here.

Buy the Sherlock Holmes paperback from Amazon.co.uk

Buy the Sherlock Holmes paperback from Amazon.com

The big shiny hardback edition of The Complete Alice in Wonderland is also out now.

Collecting all four issues of our mammoth double adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There with beautiful artwork by Erica Awano and colours by PC Sequeira, the book also features loads of extras like poems, the “lost” chapter The Wasp in the Wig, scripts, and so on.

There’s even a rather beautiful French edition!

You can read a seven page preview here.

Buy the Complete Alice In Wonderland hardcover from Amazon.co.uk

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Well…

We’ve written an adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth for a Self Made Hero anthology which is due out in 2011. The ever impressive Mr. Leigh Gallagher is handling the art and is currently wrangling with our mammoth script even as I type these words.

We’ve plotted a four issue follow up to a Dynamite Entertainment horror book we wrote a few years back which Mr. Mike Raicht is scripting and we’re overseeing. We’ve seen a bit of artwork already and it’s looking very nice.

We’ve just today finished writing #2 of our second five issue Sherlock Holmes series which is entitled The Liverpool Demon and is proving to be lots of fun thus far. Not sure who the artist is going to be yet but we’ll let you know.

On top of all that, we’ve got a big comics-but-not-as-we-know-them type project lined up which we’re very, very excited about and which we will tell you all about as soon as we possibly can. We promise.

And… I’m sure there’s other stuff too… Oh, we’ve got a couple of new collected editions out too. I’ll blog about those right now.

What’s that? Shut up? Fair enough.

Cult comic author Harvey Pekar, creator of American Splendor, has died at the age of 70.

Pekar’s life and work provided the basis for the 2003 film American Splendor, starring Paul Giamatti.

Eschewing superheroes, capes and other more traditional comic material, Pekar preferred to show the mundanity of the daily grind.

Adam Cadwell has started a group on Flickr for other people to add their drawings of Harvey, called, Draw Harvey! and invites anyone to add a drawing. Adam’s own Harvey portrait here is pretty damn wonderful, incidentally.

Frank Sidebottom was instantly recognisable by his large spherical head, styled like an early Max Fleischer cartoon. This was initially made from papier-mâché, but later rebuilt out of fibreglass.

Frank, usually dressed in a 1950s-style sharp suit, was portrayed as an aspiring pop star from the small village of Timperley near Altrincham, Greater Manchester. His character was cheerfully optimistic, enthusiastic, and seemingly oblivious to his own failings. Although supposedly 35 years old (the age always attributed to Frank irrespective of the passage of time), he still lived at home with his mother, to whom he made frequent references. His mother was apparently unaware of her son’s popularity. Frank sometimes had a sidekick in the form of “Little Frank”, a hand puppet who was otherwise a perfect copy of Frank.

From menmedia.co.uk

Manchester has joined forces to raise thousands of pounds to give the man behind comedy legend Frank Sidebottom a fitting send-off.

Fans and friends of Chris Sievey, famous as his alter ego Frank, raised a staggering £8,000 within four hours of launching a massive internet fundraising campaign to pay for his funeral.

The appeal was set up after the M.E.N. revealed the 54-year-old, who died following a cancer battle, was virtually penniless and facing a pauper’s funeral.

Generous offers of support have flooded in from across the region, including from a number of funeral directors. The family are now considering which one to use, but hope to use a Timperley based one – because that is what ‘Frank would have wanted’.

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From Comic Book Resources:

Iconic fantasy illustrator Frank Frazetta passed away today at the age of 82.

A New York City native whose career began in the comic book field at the end of the Golden Age, Frazetta was best known for his fantasy illustrations. From his character and genre-defining run of cover images depicting sword-and-sorcery hero Conan The Barbarian to his own haunting Death Dealer painting and character, the artist found immense popularity across a wide spectrum of fans. From fantasy buffs to heavy metal bands and from comic collector’s to western enthusiasts, Frazetta’s paintings not only inspired many imitators and followers but also made him incredibly popular and comparatively wealthy for a creator in the field of genre art.

Dynamite’s Complete Adaptation concludes here! For three issues prior, Dynamite has presented the most faithful comics adaptation ever, along with writers Leah Moore and John Reppion and artist Erica Awano!

Now, clocking in at another massive 40 pages of story and art, the fanciful and thrilling adventures of a little girl named Alice are completely told!

The final issue of The Complete Alice in Wonderland is available now.

This issue concludes Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There and includes the “lost” chapter The Wasp in the Wig which has never before been adapted.

You can pick up a copy at your local comic shop or order direct from Dynamite Entertainment.

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SPM #7 contains  articles on steampunk’s relationship with politics, the future of steampunk fashion and the melting pot of 19th century Europe, poems about Alice in Wonderland, fiction about airships and hot air balloons (how very retro!) and instructions on how to raise your own island out of the deathless oceans.

On top of all of that, there are interviews with Sunday Driver and The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, and a good helping of all the other wonders that you have come to expect from SteamPunk Magazine.

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